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| Full name | Wayne Bartrim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1971-10-09)9 October 1971 (age 54) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg (14 st 7 lb; 203 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Lock, Hooker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wayne Bartrim (born 9 October 1971), is an Australian former professionalrugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He was selected to representAustralia andQueensland during his career, which he spent playing for theGold Coast Seagulls,St. George Dragons and theSt. George Illawarra Dragons in Australia and theCastleford Tigers (Heritage No. 785) in England. Bartrim primarily played his club career as alock, but played his representative career as ahooker.
Born inHat Head, New South Wales on 9 October 1971, Bartrim played his junior football inKempsey, New South Wales.
Bartrim was graded with theGold Coast Seagulls in 1992 and made 76 appearances for the club. By 1994 he'd become the club's highest point scorer with 224 points, and in a match that season against theEastern Suburbs Roosters scored a club record of 20 points. He joined theSt. George Dragons in 1995 and in his seven-year career with the club was the club's highest point scorer in seasons 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999.
He was one of the senior players at the time of the merger with the Illawarra Steelers and captained the club on a number of occasions. Bartrim made his début for Queensland as a hooker in thePaul Vautin-coached1995 State of Origin series side full of inexperienced unknowns, due to many Queensland regulars being declared unavailable due to theSuper League war. His eligibility for Queensland was later questioned, though, with his only link to the state seemingly being his tenure at the Gold Coast Seagulls, who were at that time based inTweed Heads, New South Wales anyway. Nonetheless, Bartrim kicked a penalty goal in Game I, which turned out to be the only points scored in Queensland's upset 2–0 victory. He stayed on as hooker and goal-kicker in all matches of Queensland shock 3-0 whitewash of that Origin series. Bartrim debuted forAustralia in the first Test of the1995 Trans-Tasman Test series againstNew Zealand atSuncorp Stadium, and appeared in two Tests of that series (won 3-0 by the Australians), scoring a try in the second game at theSydney Football Stadium.
Injury forced him to miss the final game of the series and he was replaced by1994 Kangaroos backup hookerJim Serdaris. At the end of the1995 ARL season Bartrim was in Australia's squad for the1995 Rugby League World Cup played inEngland and made two appearances in games againstEngland (at the famousWembley Stadium in the opening game of the tournament, won 20-16 by the host nation). He also played in the Kangaroos 86–6 win overSouth Africa inGateshead.
Bartrim was again Queensland's starting hooker in Game I of the1996 State of Origin series but was kept out of the rest of that year's series bySteve Walters in the hooking role. He played in St. George's1996 Grand Final loss to theManly-Warringah Sea Eagles where he kicked two goals. Bartrim's 176 points scored in 1996 with St. George are the most ever scored by a lock in aNew South Wales Rugby League season. Following the 1996 Grand Final, he also played from the bench in a Test againstPapua New Guinea at theLloyd Robson Oval inPort Moresby, scoring two tries. He returned for all three games of the1997 series (when Super League-aligned players were again unavailable) and Games I and II of the1998 series playing at Lock, Hooker, thesecond-row, or off the interchange bench. In total, he played nine games and kicked eleven goals in his Origin career. He played at lock forward for the St. George club in their1999 NRL Grand Final loss toMelbourne.
Bartrim left St. George at the end of the2001 NRL season to play two years in England with theCastleford Tigers. He set the Castleford club's record for most goals in a season with 115 scored in 2002. Whilst atCastleford Tigers Bartrim proved an excellent signing. In 2002 he scored a vital try in a game against Salford to get the tigers into the playoffs. In 2003 Bartrim was injured for most of the season, ]. Bartrim left the club at the end of the 2003 season.[2] At the end of 2003, Bartrim returned to Australia to settle in Hat Head and was the Macleay Valley Mustangs' captain-coach in theNSW Group 2 competition in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, he moved to Brisbane and played with the Noosa Pirates in the Sunshine Coast Rugby League competition in 2006 and 2007. He is married and has 4 children.